Health IT Analytics and Population Health News

New Research to Measure the Impact of Overdose Prevention Centers

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New York University (NYU) Langone Health and Brown University’s School of Public Health have been awarded over $5 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the...

Machine Learning Helps Identify Pneumonia as Driver of COVID-19 Deaths

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Northwestern University researchers found that secondary bacterial pneumonia was a major driver of COVID-19 deaths in critically ill patients following a machine learning (ML)-based analysis of medical...

Columbia University Receives $20M Grant to Establish AI, Neuroscience Institute

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Columbia University has been awarded $20 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish and lead the AI Institute for ARtificial and Natural Intelligence (ARNI), and interdisciplinary...

Mayo Clinic Platform Expands Distributed Data Network, Partnerships

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Mayo Clinic Platform announced an expansion to its distributed data network, Mayo Clinic Platform_Connect, through new global partnerships with Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Brazil, Sheba...

AI-Assisted Ultrasound May Improve Breast Mass Triage in Low-Resource Settings

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Researchers demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) can assist with the triage of patients with palpable breast masses and accurately identify cancer using images from low-cost, portable...

AI May Improve Clinician Decision-Making Within ICUs

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In collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) found that an artificial intelligence...

Missing Data May Contribute to Health Disparities in Children with Lupus

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Researchers have found that missing data on socioeconomic, demographic, and clinical factors may negatively impact health equity for pediatric patients with childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus...

AI In Medical Imaging May Amplify Biases, Inequities

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Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) found that most crowd-sourced datasets used in medical imaging data science competitions to develop artificial intelligence (AI)...

AI ‘Brain Decoder’ System Translates Human Brain Activity

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Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that is capable of translating a person’s brain activity into a continuous...

AI Can Help Improve Clinical Attendance Among Minority Patients

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Led by MetroHealth and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) researchers and published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, new research indicates a high level of success associated with using...

Cedars-Sinai Develops AI to Predict Adverse Cardiac Events

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Cedars-Sinai researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can predict a patient’s chance of adverse cardiac events, such as a heart attack, and demonstrate how that...

Mayo Clinic: Deep Learning May Improve Head, Neck Radiotherapy

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Researchers from Mayo Clinic demonstrated that an automated deep learning (DL) tool could help improve radiation therapy planning for patients with head and neck cancer, according to a validation study...

FL Cancer Center Joins Global Genomic Data Sharing Registry

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Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of University of Miami Health System (UHealth), has been selected for membership in a global genomic data consortium supporting the American Association for...

Artificial Intelligence Reviews Patient Perceptions of Cholesterol Drugs

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Researchers at Stanford Medicine developed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that can analyze Reddit data containing patient perceptions of statins, assessing positive and negative feedback...

Columbia University Launches Center for Precision Psychiatry, Mental Health

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This week, Columbia University established the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Center for Precision Psychiatry & Mental Health, which aims to catalyze precision medicine to support the...

NIH Funding to Support Cardiovascular Disease Detection Using AI

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After receiving $6.2 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers from Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH) aim to...

Researchers Develop AI Feedback Tool to Improve Surgeon Performance

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Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system designed...

VA Primary Care Group Expands Artificial Intelligence Partnership

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Virginia-based CVFP Medical Group and medical artificial intelligence (AI) company Navina have expanded their partnership, which aims to improve provider experience, clinical outcomes, and value-based...

AI Partnership to Improve Pediatric Hospital Operations, Care Coordination

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Children's Mercy Kansas City and GE HealthCare have launched the Patient Progression Hub – a hospital operations center designed to leverage artificial intelligence (AI), predictive...

Moderna, IBM Strike Quantum Computing Partnership to Advance mRNA Research

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Moderna and IBM announced a partnership to leverage novel technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing, to accelerate messenger RNA (mRNA) research.  Quantum computing...